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War and Peace, Book 10: 1812

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(4,38 Sterne; 171 Bewertungen)

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir”) is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy’s two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world’s greatest novels.

War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title, combined with the equally large topics of youth, age and marriage. While today it is considered a novel, it broke so many novelistic conventions of its day that many critics of Tolstoy’s time did not consider it as such. Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sense. (Summary by Wikipedia) (7 hr 29 min)

Chapters

Chapter 01

13:50

Read by Labyrinth Composer

Chapter 02

15:22

Read by Andy Yu

Chapter 03

7:08

Read by David Anton

Chapter 04

30:49

Read by Andy Yu

Chapter 05

16:14

Read by Anna Simon

Chapter 06

9:39

Read by fourteatoo

Chapter 07

11:09

Read by eva

Chapter 08

28:12

Read by eva

Chapter 09

12:15

Read by Marcy Fraser

Chapter 10

16:48

Read by eva

Chapter 11

6:16

Read by fourteatoo

Chapter 12

5:17

Read by fourteatoo

Chapter 13

9:35

Read by fourteatoo

Chapter 14

10:12

Read by fourteatoo

Chapter 15

18:07

Read by Andy Yu

Chapter 16

8:00

Read by fourteatoo

Chapter 17

9:57

Read by fourteatoo

Chapter 18

11:40

Read by fourteatoo

Chapter 19

12:55

Read by fourteatoo

Chapter 20

8:39

Read by fourteatoo

Chapter 21

10:55

Read by Marcy Fraser

Chapter 22

11:48

Read by eva

Chapter 23

4:28

Read by Marcy Fraser

Chapter 24

9:47

Read by eva

Chapter 25

20:26

Read by WangHaojie

Chapter 26

8:53

Read by Anna Simon

Chapter 27

9:48

Read by Ernst Pattynama

Chapter 28

6:28

Read by James Slater

Chapter 29

6:23

Read by Anna Simon

Chapter 30

10:04

Read by eva

Chapter 31

16:12

Read by Anna Simon

Chapter 32

4:08

Read by Anna Simon

Chapter 33

9:24

Read by Ernst Pattynama

Chapter 34

10:29

Read by Philippa Brodie

Chapter 35

9:16

Read by Philippa Brodie

Chapter 36

16:24

Read by eva

Chapter 37

8:12

Read by David Anton

Chapter 38

8:08

Read by Anna Simon

Chapter 39

6:38

Read by Anna Simon

Bewertungen

(2 Sterne)

With a few exceptions the readers were terrible.

chapter 25 is very difficult to understand.

(4,5 Sterne)

wide range of narration skills

(2 Sterne)

I appreciate all the readers. I admit that I may be more distracted by accents, pauses, and indistinct pronunciation than other listeners. I am following along in the Maude translation. I listened to the first 8 books in the solo reading by Maryann of the dole translation, which was exceptional. since she stopped there, I moved to the collaborative readings of book 9, which were also great. I could only listen to 8 of the 39 chapters of this, book 10, reading all the other chapters without audio. I found Ernst, Phipippa, James and marcy ranging from good to excellent. the other narrators made the reading, for me, more difficult than just reading without narration.

(2 Sterne)

Five readers alternate through the chapters, and they have different accents. One sounds Russian, one Asian, one from Nova Scotia, and two from United States. All are understandable, but names are pronounced differently, sometimes making it difficult to follow the story.

(3 Sterne)

some of the readers have accents that are really hard to understand

Astonishing

(5 Sterne)

Great readers. The Battles of Smolensk and of Borodino

(3 Sterne)

Many of the readers are hard to understand

we love eva harnik

(5 Sterne)

great voice. comprehensible